Assessing General Education Program Outcomes

Systematic Use of Course-Level Student Data

Dr. Clifton Franklund

June 2017

About Ferris State

  • West Central Michigan
  • Medium Masters University
  • 14,600 students
  • Revised General Education

Revised General Education

What is assessment?

“Assessment is not a spreadsheet – it is a conversation”
Irmeli Halinen

Focusing the discussion

Sustainable assessment


  • Simplify
  • Standardize
  • Automate

Reproducible Assessment

Well-documented and fully open code and data that are publicly available that would allow one to:

  1. fully audit the computational procedure;
  2. replicate and also independently reproduce the results of the research;
  3. extend the results or apply the method to new problems.

Stodden, V., Borwein, J., & Bailey, D. H. (2013). Setting the Default to Reproducible. Computational Science Research. SIAM News, 46, 4-6.

Competencies and FLOs

  • First point
  • Second point

Standardizing Measures

Standardizing Pedagogy

Setting up TracDat

Registering Courses

Sending Assignments

Standardized Data Collection

Aggregating Student Data

Automating Reporting

Promoting Assessment

Disqus

Open Science Framework

GitHub

Slide with Bullets

  1. This is the first bullet
  2. This is another bullet
  3. Let’s add another, just for fun

Slide with R Output

summary(cars)
##      speed           dist       
##  Min.   : 4.0   Min.   :  2.00  
##  1st Qu.:12.0   1st Qu.: 26.00  
##  Median :15.0   Median : 36.00  
##  Mean   :15.4   Mean   : 42.98  
##  3rd Qu.:19.0   3rd Qu.: 56.00  
##  Max.   :25.0   Max.   :120.00

Slide with Plot